Bulletin Board Ideas & Designs for School, Office and Your Room

Category: Winter Bulletin Board

You may design the bulletin board into a seasonal one. For example, a stinkin’ cute is this winter bulletin board {and snowman/woman glyph crafts} that resembles Olaf in Frozen. What a fabulously fun way to herald in the season of snow! To make one, Find various interesting facts about snow to share with your students. First, learn where it comes from/how it’s formed, the uniqueness of snow crystals, etc. Add a little humor if you wish – maybe a funny reminder not to eat yellow snow or how to avoid the cartoon scissor-like-slip-and-fall when encountering slippery patches.

Even bring in a bit of history into it – get stats for the worst snowstorm in your area, bringing in a visual so students can see how high the snow was, etc. Type these various facts up, mount them onto cute patterned scrapbook paper, and display them on the bulletin board – taking time to introduce a new one every day!

For fall, you can do a scarecrow fall bulletin board. Start with a large piece of dark orange bulletin board paper, cutting a hat shape from the paper. The shape doesn’t have to be perfect. In fact, a “lumpy” hat goes right along with the scarecrow “image”! Add a band of lighter orange paper and a sunflower to create visual interest and differentiate the brim from the rest of the hat. The design is super cute, but remember that you can customize the hat as you please! Add a colorful patch somewhere on the hat, use a fall leaf or colorful button cutout instead of a sunflower to decorate the band, etc.

For summer include cutouts like sun, flowers and you may also add cute butterflies and bugs into the bulletin boards for more colourful element.

January is the beginning of the year and it can be a great source of ideas for the theme for the bulletin board in school. Some examples of these ideas include the Martin Luther King Jr. Day theme, football theme, winter theme, as well as the New Year theme.

Many schools use bulletin boards in their halls to prominently display announcements. In addition to practical use, bulletin boards are also a great platform for enhancing the learning experience – whether showcasing students’ artwork or celebrating a holiday. January has several themes that will liven up hallway bulletin boards.

Martin Luther King Jr. Day is celebrated the third Monday of every January to honor the civil rights leader. Students can make timelines of his life. Key events to include might be his leading a bus boycott in 1955-56, which was the first black nonviolent demonstration in modern times, and his 1963 “l Have a Dream” address. A board can feature children stating their own dreams, or it can have a friendship theme. A teacher can combine the board with a computer class and have students find old newspaper articles about King in the school’s online database. A teacher should be aware that February is Black History Month, and some of the bulletin board ideas may overlap. For example, in January a school might focus on King’s life, and in February have more of an overall unity theme.

January is a big month for football with bowl games and the NFL playoffs to decide the Super Bowl teams. A school can have an overall football theme with cutouts of players and goal posts. Or, if the school is near a team that’s competing in January, devote a board to the team’s colors and players with drawings and clippings of newspaper articles. You can have kids make cutout footballs and write their pick to win the Super Bowl on it.

If it’s freezing outside with snow on the ground, warm things up by having a January bulletin board dedicated to summer. Children can draw pictures of the beach, sun and baseball players. You might even have the kids bring in photos of their past summer vacations to display on the board.

Clothing items can adorn a bulletin board to invoke ideas of the season. In cold-weather months, teachers use cutouts of hats and mittens to list students’ names on the bulletin board or to assign class helpers. In warm-weather months, teachers employ this same idea but with flowered shirts or sandals. These seasonal clothing items are useful as the background in a variety of bulletin board ideas, from listing math problems to recommending good books.

January brings New Year’s resolutions, so ask students to list their resolutions and add them to the bulletin board. You can title the bulletin board, “In 2011, we Resolve …” and attach each student’s resolution to the board. Education World suggests giving each student a star on which he can write his resolution. However, you may want to include a more appropriate decoration for January, like a snowflake. Students can decorate their snowflakes and write their resolution on them, like “Get an ‘A’ in math” or “Help mom more around the house.” A few weeks later, teachers can check in with students to see if they’re still working on their resolutions.

Snowman bulletin board ideas are usually an interesting aspect for elementary school or even high school as they are able to cultivate the creativity of the students besides presenting academic information.

Seasonal bulletin boards add a decorative touch to the room while offering educational opportunities for the kids. Snowmen bulletin boards work well during the winter months because they are a popular symbol of the season. Involving the kids in creating the snowman decorations makes the board more meaningful to them.

Turn the bulletin board into a large, interactive felt board. Felt is sold on bolts in fabric stores allowing you to purchase a piece large enough to cover the bulletin board. Blue works well as the background. Cut out various sizes of circles from white felt. The kids stick the circles on the bulletin board to create snowmen. Cut out snowman details from other colours of felt. The kids can create their own custom snowmen on the board during free time. This allows the board to engage the kids and change frequently for interest.

Glyphs use a picture to represent statistical information. In this case, the image used is a snowman. Each child starts with the same basic snowman shape. The details of the snowmen vary by student depending on their answer to certain questions or personal details. Create a different question or statement for each detail of the snowmen. Examples include how the child gets to school, age, gender, pets, favourite dessert or whether or not the child has siblings. Each statement or question is then associated with a particular detail of the snowmen. Create a key for each element. Riding the bus equals a yellow scarf, walking equals a blue scarf, riding a bike equals a green scarf and getting a ride from a parent is a red scarf. The child selects the appropriate answer and colours his snowman’s scarf accordingly. The questions and corresponding detail options are flexible. Make them fit your specific class. Post a copy of the key so when visitors look at the bulletin board display they can interpret the information.

Blizzard is another one that uses class participation. Cut out a large snowman shape for the middle of the display. Let the kids glue on cotton balls to create a snowy appearance. Add other details to the snowman. Each child then creates a paper snowflake to create a blizzard around the snowman. Each snowflake will look different just as real snowflakes are all different. Staple the snowflakes all around the snowman to complete the display.

Another fun winter bulletin board idea for high school is a snowflake poem. For this idea you will need a hat, glitter, glue, construction paper, pencils, and poems about winter. Start by providing high school students with copies of several poems about winter. Have the class read the poems together aloud. Ask each student to think of one word that reminds them of winter. Write all of the words on the board. Also write each word on a piece of paper, fold it up, and put it in the hat. Discuss how the words could be arranged into a poem about winter. Have each high school kid draw a word from the hat. Instruct students to write the word they have chosen on a piece of construction paper with the pencil. Then trace the pencil line with glue. Sprinkle glitter on top and shake off excess. You may also include snowman-related décor for this idea.